Guard for brushes.



V. PASTORE. GUARD FOR BRUSHES. APPLICATION Flu-3n MAY 10, ms.

1,297,2 3 3 Patented Mar. 11 1919.,

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VINCEN PASTORE, or NEW LONDON, CONNECTICUT.

GUARD FOR BRUSHES.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented lVIaI'. 11 1919.

Application filed May 10, 1918. Serial No. 233,636.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, VINCENT .PASTORE, a subject of the King of Italy,residing in the city and county of New London, in the State ofConnecticut, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement inGuards for Brushes, of which the following is a specification, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings.

y invention consists of a guard which is preferably made of a singlepiece of sheet material, such as brass, celluloid or the like, that maybe readilyconformed to slip onto the brush, said guard being providedwith an elongated opening adjacent to the free ends of the bristles ofthe brush; my chief object being to confine the bristle ends Withincertain prescribed limits so that the brush may b strips of textilematerial such as, for exam ple, the white tape arranged in more or lessfanciful and ornamental designs on the broad collars of the shirts orblouses of marine It is a common practice at the pres-. ent time for thewearers Fof such tapetrimmed collars to take them to tailors shops, orcleansing establishments, when the tapes become soiled, and have fresh,clean, tapes substituted for the soiled ones.

Such practice, however, is quite expensive, and renders it necessary toleave the garment with the tailor or cleanser a considerable length oftime. My present purpose is to provide a convenient and cheap form ofbrush by means of which the soiled tapes may be cleaned and whitened bythe owner of the garment without removing the tapes from the garment andwithout soiling the fabric on which the tapes are sewed.

With this desirable end in view I have provided the drawings shown onthe accompanying sheet, the Figure 1 being a, perspective view of abrush having mounted.

thereon a guard of my present new construction. Fig. 2 is a relativelyenlarged, transverse, sectional, view of the same taken at the line 22of the Fig. 1 and 3 is a lengthwise, centraLsectional view taken at line33 of said Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a fiat or plan view of the blank from whichmy said e used to clean tapes, and the like guard is to be formed. Fig.5 shows a very common. example of the braided trimming on the collar ofa marine The letter a in these drawings denotes the brush which may besubstantially like an ordinary tooth brush if desired.

The guard which forms the essential feature of my present invention maybe cheaply made of sheet stock which is first blanked out substantiallyas seen in Fig. 4 of the drawings, the longitudinal central portion ofthe blank being punched out to provide an opening 6 which is,approximately, the same width as the braid which is to be cleaned andsaid blank includes relatively narrower end projections 0 and (Z whichare bent so as to incline upwardly, as seen in Figs. 1 and 3.

The side portions 6 and f of the said blank are then bent upwa'dly alongthe dotted lines 16 at approximately right angles to the slitted lowerwall of the guard and, by preference, the said lower wall is pressedupward, as best seen in Fig. 2, to provide longitudinal ribs g-h alongthe sides of the slot 6 for a special purpose which I will explainhereinafter.

The upper (free) edge portions of the sides 0 and f are swaged to formopposing, longitudinal recesses or grooves i and 70 which are adapted toclasp upon the opposite edge portions of the brush, as seen in Fig. 2;the guard being thus readily attached to or removed from the brush.

In the Fig. 5 the white lines represent braid which is stitched upon thedarker field. When it is desired to clean and whiten said braid by theaid of my described brush and guard, the guard is placed over the braidwith the opening I) in alinement with the braid, the bristles of thebrush having been moistened with water or any suitable cleansingcompound.

The brush is then rubbed along the line of braid, the latter beinglocated in the recess between the ribs g-h,' said ribs preventing, in alarge degree, the moisture from engaging the dark field upon which theraid is stitched. After the braid has been uid Whiting and then brushingthe same onto the braid and allowing it to dry.

By the use of my described brush and guard the braid may be quicklycleaned and whitened by the owner of the garment With practically noexpense and Without the delays incident to leaving the garment with atailor and having the soiled braid ripped oil and fresh braidsubstituted therefor.

Having thus described my invention, I 10 claim A brush shield and guideconsisting of a shell of non-resilient material adapted to inclose thebrush end and formed With a slotted opening and with guide ribs g-h,'the 15 end portions of the said shield being bent diagonally OUtWZLlC lVINCENT PASTORE.

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